• catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works
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        Almost as much as protests voters helped Trump do all this. Almost as much as the both sides are the same rhetoric helped Trump do all this.

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          Almost as much as protests voters helped Trump do all this.

          Gee, if only there were some way democrats could have got those voters back on board. But they were too insignificant to matter until centrists needed someone to blame for the results of their unwillingness to represent people not named cheney or netanyahu.

          When the electorate is polarized, you win by energizing your base to get more people to the polls. Abandoning your base one vulnerable group at a time not only fails to curry favor with the fascists that centrists desperately want to befriend, it also depresses turnout from your base as well. But since centrists like moving to the right and don’t want to stop, they treat their positions as sacrosanct and it is the voters who must capitulate. After all, our politicians capitulate by example so frequently.

          If they were too insignificant to listen to, you don’t get to blame them. If they are significant enough to blame, they’re kingmakers and you should have been listening to them.

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          “Whatabout protest voters, whatabout third parties” lol quit blaming other people for your failures

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            People who chose not to vote for Harris are just as much failures as the Democratic party. Take some responsibility.

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              Democratic party could have won in a landslide for speak up for their base who didn’t want a genocide, but no, they wanted it and stuck to it.

              Democrats are 100% to blame. And fuck you and everyone who tries to put the blame on people for having a conscience. If they had any semblance of representing their base, they fucked it up themselves.

              Democrats put themselves in a scenario where Trump would win and you’re surprised he won?

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                Yeah bro those people must be feeling so amazing about themselves and their pure and righteous conscience everyday that Trump runs rampant and destroys the country even more, and don’t even get me started on trans issues

                AT LEAST GAZA IS SAVED THOUGH :) fuck off and grow up. You are both to blame because you both are fucking idiots. Democrats should’ve done a better job and split with Israel, because dipshits like you needed more of a reason to vote against obvious nazism

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                  AT LEAST GAZA IS SAVED THOUGH :)

                  At least democrats didn’t have to abandon unconditional genocide support. At least they didn’t have to follow the Leahy law. They’ll make up every excuse under the sun to block progressive legislation, but straight up ignore the law to sell weapons for genocide.

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    It’s quite literally on the administrations to-do list.

    If you’re worried about election integrity under the administration, please do volunteer, or work directly for your elections board if you can. We can really use the help, no matter where you are from.

    If you have some spare cash, don’t be afraid to print out some fact sheets for people to take with them when voting, as long as you don’t violate canvassing laws of course.

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    Newsom literally responding to the national guard & marines running his own state by making memes about the esptein files.

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    They haven’t made plans for that yet. Right now they are focused on fabricating national emergencies to cancel the midterms as the republicans are set to lose over a dozen seats as they destroy their communities and people tend to switch parties during midterms when the economy is struggling.

    He is also threatening all the top military brass to start killing american citizens and getting rid of anyone the nazi administration doesn’t like.

    We are at that moment in time were shit is about to get real crazy and most of the country will be too busy and uneducated to do anything about it, just as planned.

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      I missed the killing citizens thing, when did that happen

      As you can tell, I am very busy and overwhelmed with so much I can’t keep track of all the shit that is going on

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        Yesterday. He wants the military to use Chicago as “training grounds” for our troops against US citizens.

        Also the EO he just signed making anyone who isn’t a white Christian Republican a domestic terrorist gives law enforcement more ability to arrest and hurt the opposition.

        Democrats are his “enemy within” and he told all his generals to use their power to fight us.

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    He literally mentioned turning the military on cities earlier during the rambling speech he’s giving right now, in between talking about the quality of paper he likes and complaining about not getting a Nobel prize, because people are apparently shooting firefighters off ladders.

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    Is this true ? Did trump actually do this ?

    Genuinely asking, as a french citizen I haven’t found any other mention of this anywhere

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      No, but Trump just recalled all the generals to make them watch a rambling speech where he said he’s gonna deploy them to do whatever to protestors, bring back battleships, and use the military against “enemies within America”

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            No, but theres now a nonzero chance there’s a Military coup against Trump,

            the vast majority of the people in that Quantico gathering, are probably keenly aware that America is already more or less locked into a state of conflict with Russia and China, the war is already on and its just getting more kinetic as the months pass.

            and then this coked out fuckwit brings them all together just to tell them he wants them to take their eyes off Americas actual enemies, the Russian Mafia State, the CCP, Iran, North Korea, etc. and to divide their attention to help stomp on what is essentially culture war enemies of the conservatives.

            when you’re already in the opening stages of WW3, Your enemies arent liberals or conservatives, educated and intelligent people especially those who are senior officers in the military dont think along those lines. this is just a radical civilian government asking the warfighting people to point their guns trained on the Russians and Chinese, and turn them around and point them at political opponents.

            Trump’s gang is essentially trying to do what Putin did in the 90s, and I dont think anyone in the command of the military is keen to actually put a Molotov to the country, unlike the Sycophants who all they do is talk to cameras and shitpost on twitter all day.

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            We’re not going to see a liberal coup in America.

            I dunno. They can write some pretty angry letters.

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          Here’s to hoping they’re not agreeing with him. Our true blessing is that he flew them around the world in a dog and pony show and had his chief alcoholic insult most of them a few times before he got on stage, so even if they agree with the idea, they won’t like his actions.

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        Every other military in the world would celebrate if the US decided to burn hundreds of billions of defence dollars on battleships in 2025.

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    Seems like link to Trump’s declaration should have hit my front page before the reaction. link? I could only find month old references, not that “jokes aren’t the plan”

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    “Now more than ever we need to reach across the aisle and work together…”

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      The Time to Move Forward Is Now

      Ah, 2021. A time of triumph and jubilation. Democrats coming together and saying “We won last time so now we’ll never lose again” and proceeding to write the opposition party off as toothless has-beens. What a magical moment for our country.

      Why can’t we go back to brunch? I think the real reason is because leftist voters stabbed us all in the back. So we just need to pivot further to the Right if we want to reclaim our beautiful brunch-time again.

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        Uncommitted movement? Never heard of them in my life, must be an internet joke!

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    eyes on the New York mayoral election.

    It’ll be a prelude to the general election.

    And trump is already interfering in that election. and I bet he’ll deploy the national guard during the elections. Or straight up jail a candidate.

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    Like in Germany, Italy, and Spain it will not be the Liberals that fight back. Liberals will bend the knee and beg for forgiveness while Social Democrats will protest until the military massacres them all. But it will be the revolutionaries, the Socialists, the Anarchists, and the Communists that will resist.

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        Obviously

        Then we’ll all get lined up and shot by fascists Or just Communists and liberals Who’ve been waiting all along to become the fascist cops

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            I’m well aware of the alleged historical grievances that some anarchists like to use to justify playing victim and being fucking useless, fortunately not all anarchists do this

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                Yes, a proletarian boot to prevent the capitalists from ever taking power again, your absurd opposition to wielding power for anything good ensures you will never do anything but lose

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                  Seems like a stretch to call the mass execution of anarchists “anything good” but I suppose that really depends on how you feel about anarchists.

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    He certainly learned from other autocrats that, for example, you cannot hold elections during a civil war.

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    Don’t worry everyone, Chuck Schumer is going to write one of his most strongly worded letters ever.